Where has she gone? Since claiming she is waiting for british citizenship she hasn't played. Is she injured? Or has she gone on the run with LTA funding?
I wasn't expecting main draw British involvement here, but Haqim Kamal has received a wildcard - I see that he is based at the local Mouratoglou Academy in Malaysia R1 (L48) Roger Koike (JPN) v (WC) Haqim Kamal
L16: Alexandra Panova & Zhaoxuan Yang (***/CHN) CR 73 (24+49) vs Madeleine Brooks & Ivana Corley (USA) CR 213 (120+93) Tereza Mihalikova is playing with Linda Noskova.
Sofia does indeed get an SE spot. A much stronger tournament than last week, with all seeds ranked inside the top 300.R1:- Sofia Johnson (GBR) WR897 [SE] v Anna Rogers (USA) WR283 [8]
Rory McIlroy - heck !! And he relatively actually hadn't been playing that well with in particular dodgy approaches with pundits agreeing that he was scoring better than he was playing - a useful trick. Then came the last 7 holes of Round 2. I admit to having never really taken to him as a personality. Bu...
QR1: (q2) Volodymyr Iakubenko (UKR) WR 1048 (= CH) vs Alex Zuckerman UNR QR1: Nikolai Marin UNR vs Maties Torres (ESP) UNR Hamish Stewart should be in the main draw & the top seed.
After Pierrot's latest Strongest Nation update, I have just posted in that thread : "In contrast to the general progress of the GB men, 1802 is the worst GB women top 10 total since 1870 at 01/07/24. Our #10 is Lily WR 295 They do not compare well and also currently have nothing like the general progressi...
QR1: (qWC) Noah Folkesson-Doudy (USA) UNR vs (q11) William Nolan WR 1796 (CH = 1782 in February) Blu Baker, Charlie Robertson & Zach Stephens should be in the main draw +, I think, Oliver Okonkwo & Toby Martin.
Guaranteed title in J30 Douala Dubs Final: Charlotte Perks+ v Naimah Grant+ Charlotte also made the semis in singles, and Naimah (age 14) made the quarters Myles Kiely lost in R2 in the boys J100 Spain Darsh Patel got two wins before losing in R3 to the 3rd seed Anna Boron won one match and lost...
L32: (WC) Daniel Rincón (ESP) WR 299 (CH = 181 in December 2023) vs (8) Toby Samuel WR 172 (CH = 171 last month) L32: George Loffhagen WR 236 (CH = 200 last October) vs (5) Zsombor Piros (HUN) WR 153 (CH = 106 in March 2024)
R1:- Alicia Dudeney (GBR) WR375 v Astrid Cirotte (FRA) WR660 [WC]R1:- Yuriko Lily Miyazaki (GBR) WR295 v Eva Guerrero Alvarez (ESP) WR239 [8]Freya+Eden and Alicia+Elena are on the acceptance list for the doubles
L16: (1) Finn Bass & Anthony Genov (BUL) CR 512 (266+246) vs Tim Händel & Paolo Schiavone (GER/ITA) CR 2297 (654+1643) L16: (WC) Daniel Aleksandar Amarandei & Lorenzo Berto (ITA/ITA) CR 4486 (2243+2243) vs Joe Cooper & Jelle Sels (NED) CR 2505 (1963+542) L16: (3) Zachary Fuchs...
QR1: Wei Hua-Yu (TPE) UNR vs Felix Mischker UNR (CH = 1747 in December 2023) QR1: Abdulaziz Usmonjonov (UZB) WR 1951 (CH = 1866 last June) vs Yap Man Ho UNR - a new name on me Charlie Broom, Emile Hudd & Matt Summers should be in the main draw.
L28: Marcelo Melo & Alexander Zverev (BRA/GER) CR 192 (46+146) vs Luke Johnson & Jan Zielinski (POL) CR 58 (27+31) L28: (4) Christian Harrison (USA) & Neal Skupski CR 14 (11+3) vs BYE L28: (7) Francisco Cabral (POR) & Joe Salisbury CR 29 (21+8) vs Hugo Nys & Edouard Roger-Va...
QR1: (q2) Viktor Frydrych WR 1201 (CH = 1159 last October) vs BYE QR1: (q4) Luke Hooper WR 1284 (CH = 1279 last month) vs BYE QR1: Finn Reilly UNR vs Vasyl Makarenko (UKR) UNR QR1: Younes Jenkins UNR vs Dmitrii Burtsev (***) UNR Paul Jubb should be in the main draw & the top seed.
Always a bit random with the youngsters as to whose individual player page will still be up in the mix in five years time, and whose will have sunk without trace, but... Mark Ceban is born 2009, tall and willowy, has just won the U14 Bolton event, and has come on leaps and bounds in the last 12 months, reall...
Mimi Xu is (with Hep) the other extremely promising prospect we have amongst our young female players. She also is born 2007. Comes from Swansea. And has been a top LTA prospect for several years. I was very impressed when I saw her in the U18 nationals. The thing that stands out is her physique - she is...
Dubs Final: Charlotte Perks+ v Naimah Grant+ Charlotte also made the semis in singles, and Naimah (age 14) made the quarters Myles Kiely lost in R2 in the boys J100 Spain Darsh Patel got two wins before losing in R3 to the 3rd seed Anna Boron won one match and lost...